PORTRAITS OF THE REGION'S EARLY GREATS

Negative, b/w
X.3219.003882
Henry Roeder as a young man. Half-length portrait, arms crossed.... View Full Record
Photograph, b/w
1951.0030.000019
Mounted sepiatone photo of Mrs. Henry Roeder, seated in a wicker rocking chair, on a fur rug, with draperies in back. On her lap, she holds an open book. In pencil on back: "(Mrs. Henry Roeder) / Elizabeth Austin Roeder". See also 1968.54.541 (same... View Full Record
Photograph, b/w
1968.0024.000526
Studio portrait of Lottie Roeder Roth as a young woman, wearing an elaborate dress and a cameo. Mounted on decorative board; below image on board, in silver: "Dobbs / [monogram] / Holly St. / New Whatcom / Wash." On back in pencil: "Lotte Roth". In... View Full Record
Photograph, b/w
X.2646.000001
Full-length seated studio portrait of Native American, Frank Hillaire, in costume. Signature in white on lower right hand corner of image: "Hegg Studio". On back in blue pencil: "Frank Hillaire". Undated.... View Full Record
Photograph, b/w
1968.0024.000759
Informal portrait of Phoebe Judson and her husband, mounted on tan decorative board. They are posed in an outdoor setting surrounded by trees and foliage. She is seated in a chair, wearing a dark dress with a lace collar; he is standing next to her,... View Full Record
Photograph, b/w
1977.0021.000030
Portrait of M. Davenport Engberg, profile. Inscription in white ink on lower part of image reads: "Christmas Greetings! / To my gifted pupil Catherine Wade / Smith ... Dec. 1924". Glue and remians of paper adhered to back. The Seattle Symphony Se... View Full Record
Negative, b/w
1996.0010.003207 a
Portrait of William Waples sitting in a chair, he started a department store in Lynden.... View Full Record
Negative, b/w
1996.0010.003736
CX Larrabee, portrait.... View Full Record
Photograph, b/w
2006.0072.000044
Portrait of Edward Payne Larrabee, aged eleven weeks, with his mother, Frances Payne Larrabee, November 1897. The print is mounted on 5" x 7 1/8" card marked Dobbs, Holly St., New Whatcom, Wash. Identifying information is written on back of card in p... View Full Record
Transparency, b/w
2009.0055.000021
Portrait of R.S. Lambert.... View Full Record
Photograph, b/w
1981.0036.000017
Pioneer Roland Gamwell, rose fancier, June 1949.... View Full Record
Photograph, scanned
2013.0026.000001
Charles and Ella Wilder in front of their house 2727 Broadway, 1942.... View Full Record
Negative, b/w
1996.0010.006598
P.R. Jeffcott at his desk. Author of Nooksack Tales and Trails, 1995... View Full Record
Photograph, b/w
2012.0049.000979
Studio portrait of Pierre Barlow Cornwall (1821 - 1904) as an older man, three-quarters profile,. He is dressed in dark suit coat, white shirt, and bowtie; seemingly has white hair and goatee with mustache. Photograph is undated - estimated to be r... View Full Record
Negative, b/w
2007.0040.000154
A woman wearing the Cross of Lorraine on her sleeve pins something on Mayor John Kellogg in Old City Hall, Police Headquarters.... View Full Record
Photograph, b/w
X.5930.000001
Head and shoulders studio portrait of an older man wearing glasses. Image is marked at top for trimming in black ink. On back in pencil: "Frank Haskell" and "10 1/2". Stamp of photographer Robert Brown of Bellingham. Undated.... View Full Record
Photograph, b/w
1981.0076.000005
Ella Higginson seated in rocking chair (elbow resting on arm of chair and head resting on hand)... View Full Record
Photograph, b/w
1967.0065.000016
Portrait of a man wearing a moustache, in a dark suit. "Eric A. Hegg, photographer" on sleeve label. On back, in ink: "Eric Hegg"; "page 13-a" and affixed label of Ethel A. Becker of Bellevue, Wasington. Paper-clip marks on print. Undated.... View Full Record
Photograph, b/w
2007.0041.000003
Robert I. Morse, founder of Morse Hardware Company of Bellingham; formal studio potrait. S. J. Clarke Publishing Company print order form adhered to back of photograph with order information.... View Full Record
Photograph, b/w
1965.0004.000072
Full-length studio portrait of Major J.J. Weisenburger in uniform, arms folded, before a scenic studio backdrop. Photograph is mounted on decorative grey board. Impressed on board beneath image is photographer's mark: "Hodson" / 416 Geary St. / San... View Full Record
Negative, b/w
1995.0001.016036
Sam Carver instructs one woman and two men in badminton at Western Washington College in April 1954.... View Full Record
Negative, b/w
1996.0010.006596
J.J. Donovan portrait.... View Full Record
Photograph, b/w
1965.0002.000001
Oval portrait photograph of Albert E. Mead, mounted on dark grey board. Impressed label of J.Braas, Seattle, on lower corner of board. Identical to 80.74.552. Extensive ink inscription on back dates image to "1904 or 1905" and states that picture was... View Full Record
Photograph, b/w
1980.0074.000815
Portrait of "T.S. Hamilton" (from pencil inscription on back). Also pencilled on back: "In BB Furniture Co. file". "Jacobson" photographer's signature on lower right hand corner of image in white. Below image in ink, along margin: "Credit Line Ple... View Full Record
Photograph, b/w
2014.0004.000161
Archie W. Shiels with greeting. No date, early 1920s.... View Full Record
Photograph, b/w
1995.0001.035198
Ida Parberry Peterson, head of Culinary Union for many years.... View Full Record
Photograph, b/w
1995.0010.000013
Helen A. Loggie wears her long hair at the back of her head,a necklace, a white lacy dress with a tied sash from her left shoulder to under right arm. Written on back in blue ink: "Helen A. Loggie" Photographer: La Roche Studio. Bellingham, WA. Moun... View Full Record
Photograph, b/w
2002.0015.000260
MSC 270, January 4, 1958. Launching Party Photo No. 5017. Mr. Rogan Jones, Principal Speaker.... View Full Record
Negative, Glass Plate
1996.0010.001780
Portrait of Monsignor Jean Baptiste Boulet, the founder of the Catholic Church in Bellingham and first pastor of the Church of the Assumption. "I want only to be called Father Boulet," he said shortly after gaining the status of monsignor.... View Full Record
Negative, b/w
1995.0001.007148
Author Lelah Jackson Edson and her "The Fourth Corner" book.... View Full Record
Negative, b/w
1995.0001.016117
In Fall 1954 Joe Hillaire of the Lummi Indian Tribe poses for a photograph.... View Full Record
Photograph, b/w
1980.0074.000162
Julius Bloedel speaking to a crowd at the 1925 Bloedel Donovan company picnic, holding notes in his left hand. Employees' children in the background. Dated with stamped date : October 29, 1925. On back in pencil: "Bloedel-Donovan". and "J.J. Donovan... View Full Record
Negative, b/w
1996.0010.001221
B.W. Huntoon, photographer. Portrait.... View Full Record
Documentary Artifact
1946.0024.000017 b
Mt. Baker, Its Trails and Legends. Page 30
Page 30 First Ascent of Mt Baker 1868 by Edmund T Coleman and Mr. David Ogilvy of Victoria. Photo on left of Thomas Stratton of Port Townsend, Photographer unknown. Middle Photo, "The old Lummi Village at the mouth of the Nooksack" From a wa... View Full Record
Negative, b/w
1996.0010.000633
Portrait of WWSC President, W.W. Haggard.... View Full Record
Negative, b/w
1996.0010.008070 a
June Burn, portrait of the author and adventurer, wrote newspaper column "Puget Soundings" (1929-30) and autobiographical "Living High" (1941).... View Full Record
Photograph, b/w
X.5000.000002
Studio portrait of Teresa Lapin Eldridge in later life, seated in a carved chair against a drapery background. On back in ink: "Chapter IV / Teresa Lapin Eldridge / [in different handwriting] First White Woman in Whatcom County / Mrs. Edward Eldrid... View Full Record
Photograph, b/w
1970.0139.000009
Cabinet photograph: Studio portrait of Edward Eldridge in an "outdoor" setting, holding a cane and leaning against a fence post, with a painted backdrop of a house exterior behind him. Photo mounted on dark brown deckle-edged board. On bottom of moun... View Full Record
Photograph, b/w
X.5000.000001
Oval studio portrait of Isabelle Eldridge Edens as a young woman. On back in ink: "Chapter XVII / Isabelle Eldridge-/ Edens born in / California. The first / white baby to arrive / at Bellingham Bay- / May, 1853. One of / the early Sehome school /... View Full Record
Postcard
X.5001.000001
Postcard of Hugh Eldridge in a three-piece suit, holding a very large fish in one hand and a fishing rod in the other. "40 lbs." printed in white on front. "Hugh Eldridge / 1932" in ink on back.... View Full Record
Negative, b/w
1996.0010.003401
Morrie Alexander using an adze to carve a totem pole.... View Full Record
Negative, b/w
1995.0001.025486
Bellingham Bells Baseball. Manager Joe Martin.... View Full Record
Photograph, b/w
1995.0001.034050
Tom Glenn of Port of Bellingham.... View Full Record
Negative, b/w
1996.0010.000656
Mabel Zoe Wilson... View Full Record
Negative, b/w
1995.0001.025606
Election Season. September - November 1958. Sig Hjaltalin on horse in front of Mastin's Drive-In on Samish Way.... View Full Record
Photograph, b/w
1980.0074.000562 a
Portrait of R.V. Peabody, mounted on dark grey decorative board. Inscribed (twice) with Peabody's name on front. Identical to x.2702, this folder. Undated.... View Full Record
Photograph, b/w
X.6131.000004
Lummi Country
Photo of Al Charles from "A Report: A Master Carvers of the Lummi and their Apprentices"... View Full Record
Digital image(s), CD
2016.0024.000004
Portrait of Ossian Anderson, founder of Puget Sound Pulp and Timber, later years. Says "Blackstone" at bottom.... View Full Record